Biography
Darren trained at Rose Bruford College drama school, graduating in with a degree in writing. He is an award-winning filmmaker and writer, and has written for film, television, radio and theatre. He has worked as a writer, script consultant, director and co-director/devisor for companies such as the BBC, The British Film Institute, The National Youth Theatre, The Royal Albert Hall, Greenwich and Lewisham Young People’s Theatre, The London Bubble and the Half Moon. He has written and directed six short films and worked as a writer on other award-winning shorts, now featured on Dust and Amazon Prime. He has written for the TV shows Doctors and EastEnders for the BBC. His first feature film as a writer won Best UK Feature at The London Independent Film Festival in 2025 and was chosen to screen in the London Screenings. He currently has another penned feature in pre-production with a well known UK producer shooting this year and a director attached to a third feature project that's in development. He will be making his first feature as a writer/director as well this year. Audio-wise Darren's radio play Vital Statistics was part of BBC Radio Drama/Hampstead Theatre’s ‘Stages of Sound’ and he was a writer on the BBC Asian Network radio soap Silver Street. In 2025 he co-wrote a ten-part audio period action drama with Mat Braddy, that will be released in 2026. As a script consultant he has worked on feature films, ranging from low budget to £20M. As an actor he has worked on films, including When Did You Last See You Father (2008) and The Be All and End All (2010) and has also worked in television. Darren has been short listed for the Carl Forman Award at BAFTA, is a selected short film writer for TAPS (Television Arts Performance Showcase), was a finalist in the BBC Talent Television Drama initiative, reached the last 1% of the BBC Open Call 2024 (to which over 5000 scripts were submitted), was a member of BAFTA Crew and is currently taking part in the BAFTA Connect programme. He is the Artistic Director of Spanner in the Works, who run drama and media-based workshops in schools, hospitals and museums and was show runner for their TV soap project Riverscross, screened at the BFI. He has run film and TV workshops, as well as teaching screenwriting for the British Film Institute, the MA at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and other organisations. As a freelance drama and film trainer and facilitator Darren has worked with various companies and councils, has devised projects with Young People for the Millennium Dome and Her Majesty the Queen and run two opera projects with the Royal Albert Hall. In 2010 he visited India with Sci-Fi London, funded by the British Council, to run writing workshops in colleges in Mumbai and Ahmadabad on writing Science-Fiction films.
